Good morning from Dunedin!! Feeling grateful to be here and I couldn’t have done this without one of my best friends, looking after our kids!!

Mindfulness is easy, it’s paying attention, in the here and now, with curiosity, acceptance and openheartedness, and without judging.

That means, it’s mostly an attention trainer!

This week, try to bring your attention to your body, the sensations in your body, just a couple of times a day.

Usually when you’re walking, your mind will wander off. Bringing your focus back to your body can help in stopping this wandering. As often the wandering can be ruminating, worrying, stressing, planning etc. Which only fatigues the brain and makes you feel bad.

Another way to be more mindful of the body is to start practicing yoga. I use the downdog app and absolutely love it! Great for beginners too! You can use it any time, any where, even at your work 🙂

Have a great week!

Don’t forget to register for the upcoming courses, the 8 week MBSR, 6 week creative mindfulness or the just crochet!!!

16 May: Creative Mindfulness. Down to earth and friendly weekly classes to learn mindfulness and be creative. Crochet, zendoodle, colour, knitting, origami, no artistic talents needed! So you look after your wellbeing in a fun way and stress less!

28 May: All Good Colourers, a monthly koha meet up for adults to colour, doodle and chat.

7 August: 8 week Rewire Your Brain for Happiness, MBSR training. This succesful mindfulness training is for beginners and for those who have done a short training before. Integrate mindfulness into your daily life and get 10+ downloadable exercises to practice at home. Down to earth class.

It was mother’s day yesterday, and as every Sunday I Skype my mum. We talked about how we both often feel amazed by time. We’re both feeling at least 20 years younger than we are!! So the good thing is that we both feel young at heart 💖

It does make me think though, are we not accepting that we are aging? Are we avoiding, looking the other way? I like to think we are not!

We are just chosing to live in the present, not thinking to much about what is ahead of us, and taking in every day with joy, not counting the days.

Every now and than we look back in awe and maybe sadness, realising that so many years flew by, just like that! And that’s ok too, it’s ok to have all different feelings about that, however not lingering there too long maybe.

It’s by acknowledging and accepting that change, time passing, and growing older is part of life, and inevitable, that helps us to move on again.

So this week take a moment to reflect on your life, the years that have been and your plans for the future. How does it make you feel? Can you accept that change, time passing and growing older is part of life? Are there things you want to do, or that you are going to do differently in the future?

Hi there, it was a wonderful summery Easter Country Fair for Little Sprouts yesterday and I really enjoyed helping out!

Today it’s back to normal. Don’t forget to book your kids in if you want them to come to the doodle & colouring school holiday workshop in Churton Park, Tawa or Island Bay!! Adult colouring meet up is coming up in April as well, the 24th!!!

Being mindfully present in the here and now, makes you enjoy life and gives you a good break from worrying too. And it doesn’t have to take up too much time!

This week try to take a minute every now and than during the day to practice some mindful moving. Walk slowly and breathe in as you raise your foot and breathe out as you put your foot down. Focus on the sensations in your feet and really feeling the conection with the ground. Keep a smiley face while you’re doing this too, this will help your brain to sense and signal that all is good!

Hello lovely people, here’s the weekly mindfulness workout for this week, if you are up for it 🙂

Coloring is vey relaxing and reduces stress, it is a fun form of meditating.

It makes you use parts of your brain you might be ignoring, it improves your concentration and motor skills, it is cheap and you can do it by yourself or together, you get lovely results and will feel accomplished. If you have children you might also find that they want to color as soon as they see you’re having a good time coloring!

So to get you started I offer to email you my handmade free coloring pages to color in this week, just let me know where to email them to. And feel free to let others know about this too 🙂